Planning Board - Regular Meeting

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Friendly reminder, please talk into the microphones. I'm getting complaints that people can't hear you at home. Let's have a roll call, please. Okay. Mayor Harris Lawer, present. Deputy Mayor Alex Kaiser here. Mr. Mr. David Barnett microphone on here. Mr. Richard Cedarquist here. Miss Julie Tomo is absent. Mr. Scott Bush here. Mr. Kenneth Korn. Mr. Kevin Ferraro here. Vice Chair Aaron Walker here and chairman Jeff Tiger here. We got one coming down.

Let the record reflect that Ken K's here. So also for the record, Julie is excused. She has something going medical and um more and

the other person wait I'm trying to our vice chair Aaron our vice chair had um a conflict which he reached out so excused absence. Okay resolution we had our um Scotty's bridge apartments which they're not supposed to be calling it apartments anymore. uh gateway gateway manor 10-20225s 597 Mars Avenue block 505 lot 1 preliminary and final site varants residential development the resolution has been on the Google drive I know that um everyone had a chance to review it any questions or concerns

none seeing none uh the only caveat is I mean I know that I promised our our business administrator to review it I don't know if he did I guess if there's an issue I'll have to do back and forth forgot about it. So, um can I have a roll call, please? Can I have a motion? Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion to approve um resolution 10-25s. I'll second. Uh Mr. David Barnett, yes. Chairman Tiger, yes. Mayor Lawer, no. Deputy Mayor Kaiser, yes. Mr. Cedquist, yes. Mr. Wishna, yes. Mr. K, yes.

Mr. I don't

you get a lot of

Okay, we'll just moving right along. Okay, you have people speaking to the mics and then everything go and then everything goes ary. It's really your own fault. So, uh, we have a new we have our environmental rep, Mr. Wishna, that has been attending all the environmental meetings. Thank you, Mr. Wishna. Uh, if you can give us an update, five minutes or less, what's going on with the board, maybe what they can need our help with, what are some of the topic points, and uh, we'll go from there. Yeah. Well, all would be a stretch because there's been one meeting since I've been appointed. So, it's been all since you've been appointed.

Technically, yes, it's been all. Um, I guess I know the chair had addressed the town committee. I don't know if it was the last meeting or maybe two meetings ago. So, this may be duplicative for for Harris and for um um Alex. He's sitting right for Alex. Sorry. Um so, I think the first issue Let the record reflect that I will not be voting for his name. So, I was looking that way and not It's okay. Um,

so the first issue has to do with the uh restoration of the former um rail line that goes through town. Um, there's a grant that was made available through Union County um to essentially uh convert that to a bike path that will connect multiple towns uh on the former rail line. Um, I believe that the grant um allows for the funding to demolish what is there, the old railroad ties, vegetation, what have you. Um, and I believe this has already been discussed with John um with respect to what he needs to do to connect to the county um to start the process of how they're going to come in to the town and how they're going to access um to begin that demo work.

Is this our board member wants to be join us. So, I'm going to FaceTime her in so she can be a part of it. Is this is this going to happen? Because this has been talked about for decades. It's been very un It's been very unpopular for the decades that this has been talked about. One quick second. Let the record reflect that Julie Tomato's on. It is 637. Thank you. I'm so sorry.

So, the the two committee members present may have more information on this than I do and you may have more historical information than I do, but my understanding is that the grant money the demo work has already been done and it's now a question of just arranging for that demo work to begin. Now there's multiple phases of this which is the actual construction of the bike path. So the first phase is what I understand is you guys can tell me if that's

Sure. So this is so in terms of Rails to Trails which is the program that you're talking about um and I I think Alex has info as well probably more. Um but last I had heard which was today um we are the township is in support of it. We passed a resolution supporting it. Um the issue is money quite frankly. Um there is money but we have to go through the grant process to to get that otherwise it's completely on the township's dime. Um which you guys our budget is going to be razor thin. So we need that grant money. Um and you know uh we haven't even we we do need to solicit input from the the people whose homes uh border that uh and we have not done that yet. We will once we uh go for go forward with the grant application and everything will happen according to a process.

So that's all I had on that particular topic involving involved in those involved in those

any questions for Mr. So at the end of the year maybe November December we bring just like we've done prior years we bring Ally and a few members you guys kind of update carve out a little extra time once we see in Octoberish what our agendas look like we'll pick October, November, December. Okay. Uh no other any questions for Mr. Wishna guys down there. Okay. So seeing none states,

we will go on to some of the agenda items. So we have and we're we're going to turn this portion of the meeting over to our planner, Mr. Mstrea. But there's the adoption of our our housing plan, consistency review of overlay zones that we've done, and consistency review of our affordable housing. Let's just lump it into one discussion. Two separate. Okay. So pick one and go start first and then

go ahead. I'll pass. You don't get

Yeah, sure. You're gonna get one. Julie, do you want me to give my phone to Can you hear this when we start? If you can't hear, let let us know and I'll give my phone to Jen so that way you're over there. Okay.

Okay. If I could explain this at a very high level about a u June 2025, the planning board adopted what's known as our fourth round housing element and fair share plan. We met all the deadlines under the amended fair housing act town. It went to the township committee. Township committee endorsed the plan. The plan was then forwarded to fair share housing center and the state under the DCA the program portal and we made all of our submissions for our fourth round. Fourth round go extends from July 1st 2025 through July 1st 2035. So, it's a 10-year plan. The plan was then reviewed by Fair Share Housing Center over the summer. We had no other challenges. We received one challenge from Fair Share Housing Center in August 2025. That challenge brought up two issues in our housing plan. And that kicked off a back and forth negotiation which resulted in a consent order which then resulted in a decision by our the judge overseeing the case, Judge Lindamman, who issued an order, and I'm going to quote right out of that order. Why are we doing this tonight? That's the question. the order issued by the court on page 13 of the decision of the of the page 13 of the consent order which is an evaluation of our plan which summarizes the evaluation of our plan. There are two items that I'm here to address right now on this consent order. Page 13, top of the page, it says the township shall

revise its fourth round housing element and fair share plan to include and there's I and double I. First one I additional family units in order to satisfy its obligations. The township shall provide fair housing center with the proposed sites and any draft zoning ordinances by February 15, 2026 for comment. If the parties agree that the proposed site can site creates a realistic opportunity, the township shall adopt the revised housing element and fair share plan or amendment addendum to the housing element fair share plan on a date to be established at the case management conference on February 20th, 2026. Long story short, the court and fair share reviewed our plan. They said they wanted at le site that will produce family units. That's the bottom line. What we did was, and I'll go over the the plan in a minute, so I just I'll save your time and do it one time. The second comment was, and this is in the consent order again on page 13, the township shall revise its fourth round housing element fair share plan to include item number two, revise the third and fourth round crediting tables to allocate bonus credits and provide the basis for the claimed bonus credits. The township shall provide fair share housing center with the revised crediting table by February 15, 2026. The township shall include the revised crediting tables in its housing element fair share plan and adopt the revised plan or amendment addendum to the plan at a date to be established at the case

management conference on February 20th, 2026. Okay. So what I just went what I just hand had a handout one handout it's titled amended fourth round housing element and fair share plan that's the document that both of those items I just discussed were referring to it's it has been reviewed by fair share housing center and signed off. We've met every deadline in our consent order. We've met every deadline under the amended fair housing act. Should the board find this document to be acceptable, this document will be added to our housing plan. If you remember last year, we had a housing plan. It's 3, 4, 500 pages thick. There's a lot of demographics, a lot of numbers, a lot of math in there, a lot of pretty pictures and so forth. In order to save time and make life a little bit easier, they agreed in multiple places in a consent order that we do not have to reissue that document that we can add this addendum to it. This is the same addendum that was on a Google Drive that everybody received. I'm not going to read a word for word, but on the first page, I think there's a pretty strong narrative that walks you through the entire process that I just went through with specific dates, deadlines, and the requirements of the consent order. Essentially, do two things. Amend this chart 5% of our RDP. And this chart has been signed off. And as you can see in our chart, we had a third round obligation of 410. We had a third round RDP of 142. When you add up your bonus credits at the bottom of the page of 35. Now we're on top of page three. It's 177. And then we have what's called as unmet

need. We don't have enough land. We're a vacant land town. We have an unmet need of 233. The township is required and did in the third round adopt these overlay ordinances to address its unmet need. and we identified how we did that to um meet our total obligation. If you flip to page four, that now we segue into the fourth round, we identify how we're addressing our fourth round obligation, which is 262. Up on top in green column, fourth round RDP of 24. The projects are um this essentially the Scotty's project, the Bank of America America project, and a redevelopment of a parcel on Morris Avenue. Um that is owned by a developer who's interested in moving that forward. I'll show you that in a minute on a slide. And then on the next page, on page five, it talks about our unmet need. Again, we have a very large unmet need because we're a vacant land town. 234.5 credits. We don't have enough projects to fill those. So, we have our unmet need mechanisms. I will go through those in a minute on a separate handout. And we demonstrate how we're going to meet our unmet need. And that's our overlay ordinances. And inside there is what's called the one of the one of the mechanisms is the PUD zone, which is one of our mechanisms for addressing our unmet need. It's PD

plan unit development essentially Park Place. Um that's the plan unit development. Essentially what the court said was add another project and they audited our bonus credits and how we allocated them. The the way to allocate bonus credits is different under the fourth round than the third round. In most of my towns they have asked for this audit. We completed the audit. This has been signed off by fair share. We're under court order or consent order, not a consent order, to adopt this no later than March 16th, 2026.

Um, you want to show us that one other statement you said that was I I want I would like to, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to get to that because the ordinances I'm about to talk to are reflected in this chart technically. I'd like to answer any questions, go through this chart, answer any questions that anybody has, and then have a vote on amending our fourth round plan consistent with this addendum. Close that one portion re start another section. I have a separate handout and then I'll go through the development. You are you attaching the letter from developer that

I I'll go into that in a minute. You're just one step ahead of me. I'll get there.

What does Mike amened there's a resolution that was also placed on the drive that was worked on in coordination with the And then as Mike said, any questions?

Yeah. So, so for for the new guys, we've been working on this for over a year. So, why don't you hold your questions to the end because you may hear some of the stuff. This has been over a in the making of going through vacant land in the town, sites for redevelopment, anywhere where we can add in some affordable housing, get areas that like need to be redeveloped because vacant businesses in two years. There's certain criteria. Okay, we've been doing this for a while. Let me call on you at the end. Scott, you been on a lot of questions. Just I just want to make certain what my understanding is of what we're attempting to adopt first and that is just what's listed out on four page four which would be amending the already approved uh overlay to include or uh obligation to include those either pending projects or projects

technically it's all six pages because it's submitted as one document so I prefer I it's one document. The whole the one document is an amendment to the plan. The first page is just a narrative that explain the process and then the second pages the pages two and three are important because they asked for an audit of our third round bonus credits and that charted goes all the way back in time addresses our third round and fourth round. Let me put let me put my question really was the questions we're asking now are about those specific things you can get to explain. Correct. Yes. Sorry. I have no questions about Okay. Thank you.

I have no question. Okay. So,

yeah. Any questions? What's the consequence if you don't satisfy the plan? So he can answer actually but not not accepting not doesn't have the power to do certain things anymore. It's got to be a special master. But there's a huge difference. Yeah. Yeah, drive home that please. Yeah, like I'm anywhere close.

Jeff, factually that is a thousand% accurate. Milbour has historically been um a bad actor as it pertains to affordable housing. They haven't built any. Springfield has studiously uh made strides in terms of uh fulfilling our affordable housing obligations. Um with the help of Mr. Mreda, Mr. disco everybody on this board. We've we've done a lot. I don't want to muzzle uh Julie who is also entitled to questions, but there is a state's worth of real estate between us and Milbour who did lose the ability to zone for themselves. Um I mean, we've we've been broadly compliant. We've made sure that our uh housing developments do have affordable components to them,

right? So, we're we're we're really trying to create a a path for the units to be developed. Obviously, we can't control if the projects move forward. We're not. Right. Okay. And we're looking for immunity so that way someone can't come in and buy a warehouse somewhere, knock it down, say there's only 500 units right now, right? Because we then satisfy the obligation and credit or have immunity from it with our plan. That makes sense. Julie, I'm sorry. I forgot about you even though you're sitting right in front of me the whole time. Any questions? Okay. Hope you're feeling better. Um, so we're looking for a motion to approve the document for the amended HFSP. Correct.

So, can someone make a motion for that, please? And you understand? Motion. We have a roll call. Mr. Yes. Yes. Mayor Ler. Yes. Deputy Mayor Kaiser. Yes. Mr. Barnett. Mr. Cedarquist. Yes. Mr. Bishna. Yes. Mr. Far.

It's just not a good one. Consistency review for the two overlay ordinances. You want to keep that together? The two things are separate. We want to close that one. And now Yeah. Good. Now we're going to start the consistency review for both the two overlays. One at a time. I don't is I don't know if the ordinance the resolutions two separate ordinances or one at a time. Either way. Well, I don't know what the is going to be. The separate votes. Well, separate votes. when we did this uh that's fine two years ago we did one so we could we can do one here and the township committee does multiple

I know I'm I'm asking was that you just said that was the process we did two redevelopment area the same time I'd say we did in the same meeting we did the vote is that consistent yeah He actually does. Yes. You sign this. You figure this out. Okay. So, let's go on to the next one. Go ahead. The floor is yours.

Mr. Thank you. If now we can if you want to just now it's adopted. So, let's if you just take a quick look back at our chart before we go into the next handout because they interplay with each other. chart number I'm on page five of the chart that I handed out which has been adopted by our board. We submitted this plan down to the state and we said that we will address our unmet need this 234.5 number by three different mechanisms. On page five, we have the amended affordable housing overlay zone one and then we have the PUD sub area overlay zone which is right underneath it. Those are the two mechanisms and then there's amended mandatory set aside ordinance. So there's there's three mechanisms identified on page five and we told the state and fair share that's how we're going to address this number of affordable units. What does that mean? If you go to the handout that I just had, second handout, these are the proposed projects addressing a fourth round unmet need. The first map you see, I'll skip the chart for a second, but the first map you see is AH1 zone, which ties to your chart on page five, affordable housing overlay one zone. It's identified in three highlighted yellow areas, ABC, B. They are in our zoning code today. If you open up our zoning code today, the affordable housing overlay zone exists.

It's there today. It was adopted as part of the third round and it was a third round unmet need mechanism. And if you look at your chart on the left hand side, it says third round and it talks to it states 16 units an acre is the density for multifamily and there's a footnote 18 units if you assemble five or more acres. What we did in the fourth round was we prepared an ordinance which you have it tonight in front of you for consistency review. We increased this density to 25 units an acre. That's straight out of the plan that we adopted last June. Nothing has changed. Alls we're doing tonight or all the township committee did the other night was introduce an ordinance referred to our planning board that is our fourth round housing plan. So to what the township So it's just going up by night.

That's it. That's our that's that's the first consistency review ordinance of amending our affordable housing overlay ordinance one. Any questions with that? Step by step. I think it's pretty straightforward. We're just increasing it from 16 to 25 and then 15 or 20% to 20. Great. We'll get to that in a minute. It's vacant land. Do we want to vote on that one? Yeah, let's vote on the first one. I would do everyone individually just to be safe.

Okay. So, any any questions or concerns? I think that was straightforward. I think uh Mr. Wish was about to make a motion. I was not. Oh, you were not going to make several concerns. No questions. Yeah. Yeah. So, are you here for this?

Oh, so that was a resol. You should have told us in the beginning that saved you a lot of time being here. That was a resolution to that. This board favorably at the last meeting to approve 38 age restricted units on that site. The development was approved at the last meeting and we just memorialized that action. So if there's anything you can is there is there do you want is there anything to be discussed? The board already voted and made the decision. Can't change what we've done. The applicant's a lawyer.

Come on up. Come on up. I don't want to make you wait. I think it's a good time to do public comment. Yes. Go ahead. We're just going to take a little bit of a break right this second. Go ahead. All right. Say your name for the record. It's fine. and make you wait. Sure. Um yeah, maybe my question would be like has any study or assessment has been conduct regarding the impact of the construction and uh you know especially to the house next to it.

So there will be engineer talked about there will be a construction fence around the entire property as it is right now. There'll be a silk fence eventually soil specific hours that any developer can work with the whatever it might be. Mr. Disco, any other missing? No, I mean it'll be governed by other city district uh New Jersey Department of Transportation for the Mars Avenue component

and we did make sure that I know for the neighbors traffic garbage being picked at certain hours there had to be after 9:00 something in the resolution. Okay. How close is the building to the house next? Uh, it's a whole parking lot away. So, uh, I think it's probably 70 ft or so away. Plus or minus. I think they said 70 or 76. It's decent distance. If you decide when to start construction, we don't know. It's up to them. There's also a fence that will be put up a six foot fence will be some

if we have any concern regarding construction. When when that happens you call town hall and ask department decide whether it's construction issue or issue. I said that. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah. Anyone else for public comment? Seeing none, let's move forward. Um motion approve the H the ahot

it's consistent with the increase of the density.

Okay, good. We have a roll call. Mr. Barett, yes. Mr. Mayor, yes. Deputy Mayor Kaiser, yes. Mr. Cedarquist, yes. Misso, yes. Mr. Wish, yes. Mr. Yes. And Chairman, yes. Okay, perfect. Let's go to the next one.

Okay. The next couple handouts are just a blowup of the yellow areas. So, I didn't want to if you are if you're interested in what area A looks like, the next slide, area B, what that looks like more detail, area C, but it just a blowup of those three areas. The next one is Park Place. This is the PUD site known as Park Place. I'm on this I don't I apologize. They don't have page numbers,

but second to last page and then the last page. There's I that's what I want to bring your attention to. Again, it ties back to the chart on page five that we talked about earlier tonight. And one of the concerns by Fairshare Housing Center is we need to provide more family units. That's the comment that's right out of the consent order. What essentially what we're doing tonight is we have Park Place is part of our third round plan that was adopted back in 2015. The second to the last slide shows two yellow rectangular buildings or boxes. All right. And there's there's nothing else there. Nothing happened in the third round. Nothing happened from 2015 to 2025. But those yellow square boxes remain. They were designated for family rental units to be constructed by the owner of the overall PUD. Now, flip the page. Now, we're on my last page of the handout and you'll see the existing office building that is on that same site and it's highlighted in a I guess a magenta color, a pink color. So now we have three boxes on this site which are

repres.

Yeah. And it's it's the next one too but it's in words not on the graphic. And what we did in the fourth round was we said the developer as a township we agreed that we could put some more units on this property. Again a vacant land town. We have no undeveloped land. I'm sorry to use that term. I know it's it's not something that we look forward to, but we needed to find a place to put these units. We have a developer who reached out to the town and says, "I can put together a plan and I will move forward with the town when it's ready to put units on this site." And if you look at chart five that I handed out, which we just approved under previous vote under additional mechanisms addressing remaining unmet need, it says PUD sub area overlay zone and it says to be determined. Proposed affordable units to be determined. We don't know. I don't know what they are. I don't know the number. And then we're on the green. If you go over to the green, total affordable units and bonus credits to be determined. I don't we don't know when we adopted this plan. I don't know this evening. What I do have is an email from the developers council stating that they are moving forward with a vision for this property. They are not ready yet to move that forward. They don't have a density. They don't have all that information yet, but when they are ready, they're going to bring it to the township committee and it's going to start a conversation and at some point during the back and forth of that conversation, there'll be a an agreed upon number and an agreed upon set aside. And those TBDs will be filled

with an actual number that is assigned to it based on a concept that is agreed to by our township committee and referred to our planning board. The process is going so fast that the developer hasn't caught caught up to the process yet. But yet we have a consent order that says we have to provide more land. We did that. We have a developer who's working on a plan. I have nothing to show you tonight because they're not ready yet. Um, and when they are ready, which is supposed to be within the next month, but whenever they're ready, they're ready. They're going to submit it to the township committee, and the township committee is going to start that process of evaluating it. At some point, this chart will be further amended, and we'll put that number in there when we all when the township agrees on it. So, it's a long process. the the deadline is March 15th that we have all of this adopted. So, we are basically adopting a placeholder ordinance that puts the density in place. So, we could check a box and say that we've met every one of of our requirements under the amended fair housing act and our consent order and we get what's called a certification of compliance which is good for 10 years till July 1st, 2035 and we're in really strong position and that's another reason why it's very important to adopt this. We maintain our immunity. We also maintain control of our plan, how it looks, how high, how many units, and so forth. So, I'm asking you tonight on the second one to adopt the PUD ordinance that we could at least have the zoning in place for a forthcoming redevelopment project.

So, it's basically you're going to come back to us when the developer it's it's all in the developer's hands. They're I they're telling me that they're out there surveying, they're analyzing, they're evaluating. I have no indication of what it looks like. It's part of an overall planned unit development. Most of the site is built out. It was designated for additional development in the third round, which has not occurred, and it's been identified as additional development in the fourth round, and we're waiting, and it's in the developers position hands. It's just adding those two other sites. That's it. That's it. Any questions from the board?

N seeing none. Can I entertain a motion to move to approve? It's again for consistency or recommendation of consistency. Move to approve the recommendation of consistency PUD or the PUD. I'll second it. David second. What do you want? What do you want to step on for us? I apologize. Go ahead. For the record, David. Mayor Lawer. Yes. Mr. Barnett. Deputy Mayor Kaiser. Yes. Mr. Cedarquist. Yes. Mr. Mayo. Yes. Mr. Wish. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. And Chairman Tiger. Yes.

I have I have one more quick discussion item. We closed out our We adopted our amended housing element fair share plan. We adopted the two consistency reviews. 30 seconds on the next step. All of that information, we've done it. We've checked every box in our consent order. Everything will be submitted. Last week, we got an email from the court saying uh the email, and I'm not going to open up this box tonight. It's not on the agenda and I will get back to this when I have more information to share with the board members, but we received a an email from Fairchair Housing Center with comments on the ordinances. We're evaluating those comments last well over a little over a week ago. The judge ordered us in court this morning, uh, not this morning, this afternoon at 1:30 to appear to talk about those comments. 4:00 this past Friday. The affordable housing attorney received a communication from the court that adjourned today's meeting and moved it to Thursday of this week at 3:00 in court with fair share. Um, so we'll be there. We'll defend our plan when I have more information. We'll come back and we'll talk with both the township committee and the planning board on what those comments are.

Okay, that's where I'm at. There's another ordinance of the affordable housing itself. I don't know if you did the review of that as well. Okay, good. I'm ready to talk about I that's a separate vote as part as part of the agenda. Um you're right. You're right. I has to be done today.

You're right. I just wanted to close out the overlay ordinances. I didn't want to I don't want to mislead my board. We just approved. We just found ordinances that are consistent with our housing plan. Okay. At the same time, they're be they are being evaluated and critiqued by other groups and we're going to address those comments. So in the future if I come back with a comment I want to just be clear about that. There's one other thing left. Yeah. I'm sorry. Uh just a a quick comparing us to other towns because I I want to drive home that I think we are trying to do exactly what is asked of us by the law.

We might not like it. I think a lot of us understand that we do need affordable housing. Yep.

Might not be the perfect way. So, we're trying our best. Compared to our other tents, how is every town are are there a select few kicking and screaming? Are there some just ignoring this or is everyone trying their best? I would I would say that out of all of my towns, they're either kicking and screaming or they are doing their best to adjust uh to to best planning solutions to address and put together a really strong plan. Um that's all, but I've got I've got an outlier, but I don't want to pick on them. But in the third round, I had an outlier and they went through they lost their immunity. They went through a trial. They lost their planning board, planner, governing body. They went through it. And it wasn't was not a pretty process. So everyone um is going through it but it's very difficult because when I do circle back with this group on these comments I'm referring to and it's not on the agenda and I don't want to start going down there but to answer to get to the point before these comments are increase impervious coverage put more on the property. Go up higher more and more. So, I'm not we'll we'll get there, but that's the critique of what we just adopted tonight. And we're scheduled to be in court on Thursday to address those comments. And whatever whatever happens in court, then I come back to the township committee and the planning board and we figure out how to address it. and separately that and I should ask this during our the PUD

uh um is that are those buildings that are proposed that they're potentially being proposed the three are they going to be governed differently than right now don't they have like a they have they have a home they're still to be determined you're you're 10 steps ahead of me alls we're doing tonight is putting the zoning in place saying the developer can can do it put those units here with an inclusionary project 20% set aside and everything that follows from there is going to be a negotiation or

with the township committee. So you're a little bit ahead of me how high, how tall, how many units, density, setbacks. They want to go through the redevelopment process. It's all on them to and they're prepared to demonstrate to the township committee and the planning board what their vision is, but that's on them. Okay. That's fine. I guess my question is when we're approving the overlay zone or

whatever that might be, what is the mechanism in place to ensure that whenever a redevelopment application comes in that by right, if you include that in and they max out by right that we're not significantly going over. Sure. It's a great question. Great question. Go to the very last slide. And I'm sorry I didn't go through this clearer. Very last slide. Parkplace fourth round proposed development site acreage. If you Well, the address is 955 South Springfield Avenue. There's an existing office building on the property. We identified the acreage is 0.5 just for it's because that's a sub area 0.5 with a with a density of 25 units an acre. So half of 25 is what they can put on that site after the township committee should the township committee adopt the ordinance tomorrow night. It's what I referred to before a placeholder because we without knowing

I have we're not gonna we're not going to put a number on there that would hurt the town in any way, shape or form. So, you know, so third 12 and a half or 12 they could 13 would be over the density. So because well no I'm even doing the right math above that because it's half. Yeah. 13 would be over. So they could put 12 units on the property. 12 units or 12 affordably. No it would be 12 unit. Yeah. Exactly. It's 20% of 12.

But the maximum density is 25. The maximum density is 25. So it's 25. half of that we have a half acre and then 20% of that number. It's a it's a number. It would be two units. It would be two units

and and fair share recognizes that. We're not trying to play a game because we have it in writing from the developer recognizing that they're agreeing with that and saying we're not even ready because we don't know what the plan looks like and when we are we're going to come and meet with the township and that TBD those 12 units will be replaced with a number

see the lastist Sure. It's our it's our third and final document that again we have to check off a check a box that the township has to is required shall adopt an amended affordable housing ordinance in order to be consistent with well not I shouldn't use because in order to comply with our consent order and the amended fair housing act. This document essentially is on the books today. We have an affordable housing ordinance. We have an mandatory set aside ordinance. And we have a development fee ordinance. They're all in our township code today. December 2025, the DCA issued new Uniform Housing Control Act rules, U-Hack rules, which updated our affordable housing affordable housing obligations. These are statewide obligations, statewide regulations. They're again, they're in our code today, but they're written based on the third round rules. So they're dated based on the third round rules. So they're dated.

So what the So what the state did was they issued a model ordinance that refreshes the state did was they issued a model ordinance that refreshes those those th those uh discussion points in our ordinance. It addresses th those uh discussion points in our ordinance. It address it's to be it's to be clear it's three in one. It used to be three separate ordinances. Development fee ordinance, affordable housing ordinance, mandatory set aside ordinance. In the fourth round, they wrapped it all into one. DCA issued a model ordinance. We edit it for Springfield Township. And that was the ordinance that we are required to adopt to make sure our rules are consistent with the fourth round. That was introduced by the township committee.

Introduced by the township committee. It's on tomorrow night for the uh agenda to be adopted. And it's one more box that we have to check. And off the record or for the record, DCA has already stated that they're going to further amend them. So, I'm going to bother you with this at some point in the future. Once they further amend them and release them, we're going to have to do this one more time. We're not controlling the process. The state is. We are under requirement to do this. And for the record, what is an affordable housing ordinance? all those other projects that we talked about earlier tonight. This these are the rules of how to manage those, operate those, maintainification, bedroom qualification, so on and so forth. It's all regulated under in consistent with the U-Hack rules which are is a statewide regulation.

Mr. Jessica, do you have anything to add? Sitting there very quiet. Nothing to add. Let's start down there. Any questions? This is just the the ordinance that the committee finding consistent master plan consistent consistent with their fourth round housing element fair share plan. Okay, seeing none. Uh there's no public um you're No, thank you.

No, thank you. Okay. Well, then seeing no public um we entertain any questions or concerns since we've had none. So, let's entertain a motion to outlined as uh Mr. Mr. said to adopt. Second. Sorry. Roll call. Deputy Mayor Kaiser. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mayor Walker. Yes. Mr. Cedarquist. Yes. Miss Mayo. Yes, Mr. Wishna. Yes, Mr. Corn. Mr. Ferraro. Yes. And chair Tiger. Yes. Motion passes. Mr. Mr. Are we done with you tonight? Yeah. Okay, good. Move to adjourn.

Not yet. Not yet. No. So, a couple things. One, our next meeting will either is virtual for the board to know it will be either on April 8th or April 13th. We're just working through some things right now, but it will be a virtual meeting for the two new folks. It's just a Zoom meeting. You'll get a link. you join. Um, as of right now, the the what will be coming before the board will maybe be our master plan. Mr. Ma. Yes, that's that's up next. Yeah. If we do get the application for United Windows and Doors, that will move to a different meeting because we're not taking that virtual. That requires to a lot of understanding of the site plans and so forth. Um, any members of the public wish to speak? Seeing none, like to close the public and open up for Mr. Mayor.

Move to adjourn. Second. All in favor? I see you later, Julie. Next figure by went over